Gaston, Paul L. "W. D. Snodgrass And The Fuhrer Bunker An Interview.

" Papers On Language

& Literature 13.3 (1977): 295. Academic Search Complete. Web. 30 Sep. 2015.
The article W.D. Snodgrass And The Fuhrer Bunker An Interview. is part of the
transcript of an interview between Paul L. Gaston and Snodgrass. The interview too place
on January 1977 at the Snodgrass home near Erieville, New York. The interviews main
points of discussion include things such as the transition from writing Hearts Needle to
The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress (which was later rewritten in 1995 as
The Fuhrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle, which was the version I read). Snodgrass also
notes the influences which lead him to the topic and some interesting steps along the way,
such as criticism for making the Nazis seem more human (even though that was the
point). They also talk about what influenced Snodgrass to do a multi-voice poem, a series
of monologues, and in general getting a broader view of why he chose to create the
collection the way he did.